Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-04
The CLAIMS OF CREDITORS.
The Jury Sustains Them as Against
Bagley, the Tabor Merchant.
TIE KNOTS SMITH WEDDING.
Another Small Round in the Ogden
House Case-The Victim OF the
Sensatiors! Humping
Net Preacher.
BagIey Beaten.

GLENwOOD, Nov. 3.-The case OF
Bcere, Wells e. Co. against Bagley has
at last come to an end. This case i'm
volved large amount of money. and
has created great deal OF interest and
feeling. Deere, Wells & Co. had been
selling agricultural implements to Bag
ley, who was prominent merchant at
Tabor, Ia, and who also had store at
Holdrege, Neb. Bagley was owing
them between O., 600 and $1,000. Deere,
Wells e. Co. began to be little
timid, and on investigat-
ing the financial standing OF
Bagley. learned facts which led them
to believe that he was about to dispose
of the property, and leave his creditors
out i'm the cold. II was learned that
Bagley was owing between 10000 and
| $40 900, and that he was not making
any such provisions to meet the indebt-
edness as a prudent man, expecting to
pay, would make, but that he was get
ting in new goods and selling them out
at lower prices than he was expected to
pay for them. There were numerous
such bits of information, of which Deere,
Wells & Co. possessed themselves, and
acting on the advice of their attorneys
they concluded the only way to
secure themselves was to attach
the property, which they did.
| The other creditors also came rushing
| in with their claims. and Bagley went
| to the wall. much to the surprise of those
| who only knew that he was a prominent
and apparently flourishing merchant.
| The suit just concluded was the result
| of this attachment. Deere. Wells e. Co.,
| in attaching, gave bond of $4,000 to
cover three times the amount of the
| claim, and Bagley, not disputing their
| claims, wanted to have the amount of
| this bond awarded him as damages for
the wrongful suing out of the writ. For
two weeks this case has been on trial.
| Charles M. Harl and Colonel Sapp, of
! Council Bluffs. with James McCabe, of
, Shenandoah. represented Deere. Wells
& Co. Bagley had for his attorneys
| Major Anderson, John Y. Stone and Mr..
Lothrop. of Sioux City.
| Bagley's financial affairs were shown
up in unpleasant clearness. Itappeared
that he had made statement not long
before the attachment that his assets
were about 1000. and his liabilities
about $4,000. Then within a very
short time he made another statement
that his assets reached about $5S, 900,
and little later that they reached
600. According to his statements he
| kept his assets about so far ahead Of
| whatever liabilities were shown up. but
these changes in the figures. taken with
| other facts were too startling.
| Major Anderson apparently found the
testimony n little too strong for him and
in his closing argument he made one of
his shrewd speeches. trying to play
upon the preiudices of the jury as upon
the keys of "a piano. He uttered some
very foolish sentiments for IA congress-
man. He declared that the time was
coming, and that not far distant, when
these laws for the collection of debts
would be swept away. He waxed very
eloquent over this picture of the future,
when a man would not be obliged to pay
an honest bill until he got good ready,
and not then if he didn't feel that way.
The jury about o'clock this morning
brought in verdict which showed how
much they felt like endorsing the elo-
| quent majors appeal for the abolition of
the laws in regard to the collection of
debts. They rendered verdict in favor
of Deere, Wells g. Co. for the full amount
of their claim, repudiating entirely
Bagley's claim for damages, so that the
endorsement of Deere, Wells g. Co. S
action was complete.
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